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Worth reflecting on how the average opinion on this story compares to the collective mobbing that occurred at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=269

• mil22 1y ago
  Oof. So much opportunistic grandstanding and virtue signaling in the comments there. I read for 5 minutes and didn't find even a single comment that expressed any uncertainty about the truth or accuracy of the allegations.
  • burkaman 1y ago
    Some of the top comments do, these three for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961815, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963597, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962421. In general I think this was quite a reasonable comment section. I see a lot of "damn this sounds awful" (and it does), discussion about the general phenomenon of sexual harassment (which is obviously real) rather than that specific case, and some uncertainty about what actually happened. I don't see much "this guy should be jailed immediately" in the top comments. I certainly wouldn't call it a mob and I don't see anything that deserves to labelled as insincere virtue signaling.